Monthly Tunings
- This page is about the project organized on Facebook. For the project organized on Discord, see Tuning of the Month Club.
The Xenharmonic Alliance Monthly Tunings group is a semi-private spin-off of the main Xenharmonic Alliance group. The point of the group is to get xenharmonicists to work on the same tuning, and share ideas, discoveries and music in that tuning. Each month, we all vote on the tuning we want to use.
This page is meant to be an archive of the content produced by that group. Feel free to add your own work to the list.
2016
- February and March - Pajara
Claudi Meneghin’s Little Prelude & Fugue in Pajara
- April - Sensi
Sensi Tocada by Claudi Meneghin
- May - 19edo
- June - 37edo
Little Twyelyghte Musicke (37edo) for 2 Cornetts, 2 Sagbutts & Timpani by Claudi Meneghin
Canon in F, 37edo by Claudi Meneghin
I do not know if she is saying the truth by Igor Livramento
- July - Superpyth
Highlights - Triadic Superpyth Study by William Lynch
Super Chill by William Lynch
Demanding Two Faces by Stephen Weigel (Soundcloud)
Where were you During the Apocalypse? by Stephen Weigel
- September and October - Porcupine
Little Fugue in Porcupine by Claudi Meneghin
- November - 21edo
"Bueno Pa Gozar" (by Kite Giedraitis, salsa-esque piece loosely based on Oye Coma Va)
Iridescent Wenge Fugue by Stephen Weigel, accepted into SEAMUS 2018 and EABD 2018
21edo Chacony, for harpsichord by Claudi Meneghin
- December - Fibonacci tuning (look on page 22 the doc / 24 of the PDF)
- The Fibonacci sequence is a series of integers that successively add to create the next one in the series, beginning with 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, etc... and thus a Fibonacci horogram shows this sequence in its rings / moments-of-symmetry. The generator for the Fibonacci horogram is 458.359213... cents.
2017
- January - Bohlen-Pierce
A Mean Little Voice by Stephen Weigel
- February - 19edo
- March - 26edo
Canon 3-in-1 on a ground ‘The tempest’ by Claudi Meneghin
- April - Semaphore
- May - 11edo
Halve Knot (demo) by Mercury Tree
- June - Mavila
Gamelan, Genesis, and Birth by Stephen Weigel, played by the Beo String Quartet
Hunger Wanders in an Empty Room by Stephen Weigel
Kôsma jumiś lul by Herman Miller
Mavila Fugue by Claudi Meneghin
- July - Marvel Woo
Marvelous River by William Lynch
A Short Composition in Marvel Woo by Chris Vaisvil (website)
Cave of Marvels by Herman Miller
Hallelujah in Marvel Woo (cover)
- August - 20edo
Underwater Spontaniety (lo-fi ambient) by Stephen Weigel
God's Favorite Tuning (xen-pop) by Stephen Weigel
You Lied, and I'm not Mentioning your Name (xen-pop) by Stephen Weigel
20edo Ambient Guitar with Video by Chris Vaisvil
Spinning the Web by Herman Miller
Chacony & Fugue in 20edo by Claudi Meneghin
- September - 72edo
Modes for Strings #7 by Prent Rodgers
- October and November - 46edo
Curiosity Finds a Frown by Stephen Weigel (this is in 23edo - 23 is half of 46, so it counts!)
- December - 15edo
We Wish You a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! (online Christmas card) by Stephen Weigel
2018
- January - 18edo
The Moon by Noah Jordan (Facebook), this was done with acoustic piano
De-Void of Re-Incarnation by Stephen Weigel (fixed media)
Revealing the Path by Herman Miller
- February - 10edo
Padanian Canon in 10edo by Claudi Meneghin
English Theorbo, in wandelwonderland, Fantasy for Piano by Chris Vaisvil
Ten-Armed Hunter by Herman Miller
- March
- Monarda
- Monarda is a 12-note subset of "Tannic" temperament, discovered by Scott Dakota, that is rank-three and observes the 17-limit. 17-limit JI is 7-dimensional, and the commas tempered out are: 273/272, 561/560, 441/440, and 225/224. 7 dimensions - 4 commas = the 3 dimensional tuning. To find temperaments, it's recommended to use the Regular Temperament Finder, instead of the wiki. Check out the FB Monthly Tunings page for specifics.
Cam Taylor's Monarda Impressions
Tannic Acid (comparison) by Chris Vaisvil
Nowhere in Super Particular by Stephen Weigel
ilu by Noah Jordan
- April - Polaris
- Polaris refers to a 17-note constant structure in 13-limit JI. It can either function as an untempered JI version, or a tempered version, where 352/351 and 364/363 are most often tempered out (144/143 can be tempered out as well).
polaris falls by Chris Vaisvil
- May - 31edo
Contrapunctus 11 tuned to 31edo by Claudi Meneghin (original composer J. S. Bach)
2022
- May and June - 41edo
- July - 6ed5/4
- August - 46edo
- October - Blackjack
- November - 23edo
- December - 37edo
2023
- January - 37edo
- February - 43edt
- March - 26edo
- April - Golden meantone
- May - Triple BP
- June - Carlos Alpha
- July - Dwarf17marv
- August and September - Tetracot
- October - 50edo
- November and December
Group was on hiatus during these months.
2024
- January - Negri
- February - 33edo
- March - Sensi
- April - Orwell
- May - Eagle 53
- June - 19edo
- July - 34edo
- August - 21edo
- September and October - 15edo
- November - 43edo
- December - 42edo